But just a week after Chicago’s historic victory this season, Ball — who was born in 1908, the last time the Cubs won the World Series — died after suffering a heart attack, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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“The cruel irony, the almost unbelievable irony, is that the person who waits and waits and waits, after it happens, says, ‘I’ve done what I’ve got to do, and I’m out of here,’” her son Rich, 75, said. “It ain’t funny, but it’s funny.”
Rich Ball said his 108-year-old mother didn’t watch the Series-clinching Game 7 on Nov. 2, but she was excited to hear the news the next day.
Even though Mabel grew up a lifelong fan, thanks largely to her father, she went to only one game, and that was on her 90th birthday.
